Huntsville Alabama

Just a quick blog from Huntsville making use of Lisa's wireless. Had a great train trip past the bayous and some of the devastation still to be seen from Katrina and on to Memphis. The train arrived on time! Our taxi driver told us heaps about Memphis but we only caught half of it because of his accent. The Southern accent seems stronger in Tennessee than it did in Louisiana. Saturday morning we picked up a rental car and with some trepidation headed off for Huntsville. Getting out of Memphis nearly caused a divorce as we came to grips with driving on the wrong side of the road, multiple exits, and what an eighth of a mile before an exit might be!


Once we got out of the city though, it was no problem, with roads that went on forever and not that much traffic. We obeyed the instructions of the GPS speaking to us in an American accent, and arrived at Lisa and Jim's house with no problem.

It took us a few minutes before we could greet them properly as first we had to deal with three large excited dogs!


This is two of them next morning when they have calmed down a bit.

We had a lovely meal at a German restaurant with Lisa and Jim eating food we had never heard of before, and being tempted by milky way pie, and bourbon and pecan pie!

Today they are taking us driving around Huntsville and we will find out more about what NASA does here.

;-) Ann-a-Gram